A crew member on the Carnival Splendor informed me that on the morning of March 24th, “we had emergency alarm on pa of a fire then several more announcements saying it was not a fire just smoke coming out of an electrical locker still peoples cabins had smoke and force people to wait till going
Fire Erupts on Cruise Europa
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News Maritime reports that a fire erupted in the galley of the ferry Cruise Europa during a voyage from Ancona, Italy to Igoumenitsa-Patras, Greece.
The fire reportedly started in a galley, but the fire sprinkler system stopped the spread of the fire and extinguished it. There are reports that the ship’s galley was slightly damaged
Small Fire, Pod Failure on QM2
A small fire reportedly broke out in the gas turbine exhaust of the QM2 on December 12th. It was quickly extinguished although the cruise ship temporarily lost power.
One of the cruise ship pods also malfunctioned and the ship was briefly delayed in Lisbon to address this problem.
The QM2 is headed now back to the
Fire on Grand Princess Near Hilo
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A reader of our Facebook page has reported that a fire broke out in the engine room of the Grand Princess this morning as the Princess cruise ship approached Hilo, Hawaii. The reader cites the Cruise Critic Boards as the source of her information:
"BAD news first……about 0530 the captain came on and advised the
Le Boreal Cruise Ship Fire Survivor Tells of Ordeal
A Canadian cruise ship entertainer is back home after an ordeal aboard a cruise ship which faced a fire which it could not control.
As reported by CBA, a fire broke out on the Le Boreal.
"We were all concentrated on the top deck in the front, to get away from the smoke, which
News I Missed: Norwegian Pearl Fire
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Here at Cruise Law News, we try to stay on top of "everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know." Sometimes, for various reasons, we don’t hear of significant events, such as cruise ship fires.
A reader on our Facebook page brought to our attention that we missed reporting about a fire which
Le Boréal Fire and Evacuation More Serious than Disclosed
The engine room fire which erupted aboard Ponant’s luxury cruise ship, Le LeBoréal, near the Falkland Islands on Wednesday night was far more serious than initially reported by the cruise line.
U.K. newspapers report that the crew was unable to extinguish the major fire forcing the passengers and crew to evacuate the cruise ship into
Fire on Ponant’s Le Boréal, Passengers and Crew Evacuated
A number of news sources are reporting that a fire broke last night on Ponant’s luxury cruise ship, Le Boréal, as the ship was sailing north of the Falkland Islands. The vessel was heading from Grave Cove to South Georgia when the alarm sounded shortly after 2:00 A.M. last night.
347 passengers and crew were
Splendour of the Seas Catches on Fire
Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas caught on fire this morning as the cruise ship was sailing in the Mediterranean near the Greek islands.
“There’s thick acrid smoke all over the cabins," reported an Irish passenger according to UTV in London.
“We can constantly smell smoke. Smoke here. Smoke everywhere. Everywhere on the ship we can
Fire Breaks Out on Carnival Pride
Several people on the Carnival Pride tell me that a fire occurred in the engine room of engine no. 1 last night.
One passenger described the fire as involving an explosion of the engine.
The fire was extinguished and the Pride was delayed arriving at the next port (Half Moon Cay) today.
One passenger sent